Philip Saville Movies

The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife)...

A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.

A troubled actress has conversations with a range of different people.

Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When...

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays...

Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.

The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of...

Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a...

A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried...

A play that looks at the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and Ernest Hemmingway in 1925 Paris. This dramatization brings to life the...

Two extraordinary days in the life of young Beatles-fan Kevin - as he drifts in space between yesterday and today.

The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When...

The Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse London and Broadway musical hit Stop the World, I Want to Get Off is given literal treatment in this filmization....

A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."

Based on one of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories, a young reprobate who visits a jeweler with the intention of killing and robbing him, but has...

The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and...

Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.

Sam and Ingrid start out with dreams of marrying someone rich who will make life easy. When they find they do not match up to each other's dreams...

Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice...